AVITAL

Created and directed by Michael Breslinwith Ariel Sibert, Zoe Mann, and Amandla Jahava based on the Avital Ronell scandal at NYU Contact me for the script!

On August 13, 2018, the front page of the New York Times made a splash: “What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?” This question doesn’t even begin to cover the strange entanglement between Nimrod Reitman, a gay graduate student, and Avital Ronell, his queer dissertation advisor and academia’s reigning queen of deconstructionist theory. Part lecture, part dazzling spectacle, AVITAL dives headfirst into problematique questions about abuse of power, queer desire, and grad school.